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Authorities on Friday identified the 5-year-old girl who died after a head-on crash outside Ventura last week.

Victoria Johnson, who had turned 5 in late August, died at UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital in Los Angeles on Monday, according to the Los Angeles County Medical Examiner-Coroner’s Office.

The girl had been riding in the back seat of a Hyundai involved in the Sept. 6 crash on Bristol Road, according to the California Highway Patrol. She was not in a car seat, as is required by law, but was wearing a seat belt, officials said.

The accident took place around 8:45 on a Friday morning. The driver of the Hyundai, a 39-year Ventura woman, was heading west on Bristol when she lost control of the car east of Ermine Avenue, the patrol reported. The Hyundai crossed into oncoming traffic and hit a Toyota Camry, authorities said.

The crash site is just outside Ventura city limits, where a section of unincorporated agricultural land extends into incorporated residential neighborhoods on either side. The incident closed the road for four hours as authorities investigated.

The California Highway Patrol provided this photo of the scene of a crash Sept. 6 on Bristol Road outside Ventura. A 5-year-old girl later died.(Photo: CONTRIBUTED PHOTO/CHP)

The driver of the Hyundai, described as a friend of the girl’s mother, suffered minor injuries. The Camry driver, a 58-year-old Ventura man, suffered minor injuries and was taken by ambulance to St. John’s Regional Medical Center in Oxnard.

The girl’s 35-year-old mother, who was also riding in the car, was not wearing a seat belt, the patrol reported. She suffered major injuries.

All occupants of the Hyundai were taken by ambulance to Ventura County Medical Center. The 5-year-old was later airlifted to the children’s hospital in Los Angeles.

The incident remains under active investigation, a CHP official said Friday. No arrests have been made, but an official from the agency’s Ventura office said last week they expect to recommend that prosecutors press charges on the girl’s mother and the driver of the Hyundai.

Anyone with information about the crash is asked to call the Ventura CHP office at 805-662-2640.